The Sept. 21 "He said she said" feature does a good job of drawing attention to an issue that affects all members of the Blacksburg community (and, really, all residents of planet Earth): the use of ...

Americans throw away 76 million tons of containers and packaging annually, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This includes 25 billion polystyrene (Styrofoam) coffee cups. The Earth ...

A letter regarding styrofoam recycling was positive and a nice change from the usual negative comments. Those of us who may not have the room to collect or the ability to travel to the landfill to ...

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Canada should ban styrofoam items. Did you know that people throw away about 25 billion styrofoam cups a year? Styrofoam cannot decompose. If you put styrofoam items in a trash can, the garbage truck ...

Expanding the ban on Styrofoam containers as considered by the Albany County Legislature is bad for business, health, quality of life and bad for the environment. Two recent letters ("Styrofoam ban ...